The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-23
AN END OF IT.
The Second Term Question
Apparently Settled,
BY A PRESS CORRESPONDENT,
Who Has It From the Highest Au-
thOrity, that President Cleve-
land VIII Not Accept.
He Won't Have 1t.

ST. LOUIS, April Pa special from
Washington to the st. Louis Republican
gives the following rather startling in
formation: President Cleveland neitt
wishes nor will accept denomination
This will be startling information to the
country, setting aside the important
question of the second term now the
subject of interested consideration in
political circles everywhere. The CORES
pondent of the Republican has
THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE AUTHORITY
for the statement, however, and it can
be depended upon as strictly and en-,
tirely true. 1t comes from the Presi-
dent himself, who made the declara-
ton to this effect on Wednesday to a
prominent Democratic Senator from
one of the Western States, who is on
terms of especial intimacy 1t the
White House. The President Spoke
with so much deliberate earnestness
and such studied emphasis that the
Senator with whom he was talking is
certain there is no reason to question
HIS PERFECT AND ENTIRE SINCERITY.
His manner, no less than his words, in
Dictated that the declaration was simply
a decision of a firm resolution which
had resulted fro1. careful considera-
ton of all the phases of the matter
The President said he had not given
any intimation of his feelings 10 the
representatives of the press, for the
simple reasons that he felt nothing he
might say about not wishing or being
willing
TO TAKE SECOND TERM
would be believed. II hardly expect
anybody to believe it." he said. Except
my wife, but it is so none the less"
Continuing he added, e cry thing do,
every appointment L make, they think
it is to secure reelection. On the con-
trary, | am counting the days that re-
main until my release from office, just
as if were prisoner in con6ne nent."
to make it plain that he
had taken no half-hearted resolutions,
the President proceeded to speak of
THE ExACTING AND LABoRIoUs DUTIES
which fall to tho incumbent of the Pre-
sidential Office. When the functions of
the presidency are administered with the
scrupulous and minute faithfulness he
has brought to the position, no man, he
said, could endure the strain of such
labor, at once physical and mental, for
a longer period than four years, with.
out the risk of permanent injury to his
health. For these reasons. he could not
think of continuance of his term be-
yond the four years he has now half
completed. Nothing, he said to his
senatorial visitor, would pursuade him
to alter this resolution,
WHICH HE HAD DELIBERATELY FORMED
he did not want a second term, and he
did not believe there were any obliga-
tons of public duty which could re-
quire him to forgo his personal wishes.
he Senator who has repeated this sig
nihcant conversation to his friends
says that while the President was not
talking for the purpose OF getting his
views about reelection before the
public, there was no intimation that he
desired. his words to be regarded -
The Senator has spoken
freely OF the interview to personal
friends,
ANY INJUNCTION OF SECREC1s
1t is not unlikely. this private discus
sion of the matter will eventually pro-
woke some formal and public utterance
By the President. The Senator is quite |
sure there was none of the coy strategy |
Of the artful politician, who thinks by |
this device. to appear as being sought |
oy rather than seeking Office. In this |
1isavowaI of a second term ambition by
President Cleveland, he is convinced |
very word is meant for
JUST WHAT IT IMPLIES,
md that it will be wholly useless to
olan the next campaign on basis of
he renomina alton of Cleveland. The
President Was specific and decided in
saying he could not be induced By any
possible consideration to change his
mind; that there was nothing in the way
Of argument which could be brought to
,ear to alter the resolution determined
like by every consideration of personal
comfort and happiness, and by the
most conscientious regard for what
,ouId fairly be asked of him as a patri
,tic servant OF the people.